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Again, in Melchior Adamus's Life of Conrad Pellican, at the bottom of 

 p. 263, 8vo. edit, there is a passage to this purport : " At that time, viz. in 

 1484, the soldiers, returning from Flanders, introduced several novelties; as, 

 party-coloured stockings, square-toed shoes, both men and women before that 

 time wearing them piked or sharp-pointed ; as also a new kind of square-toed 

 sandals, caWed pantoJieUf which superseded the use of wooden shoes, holtzsckuh: 

 so that these novelties became very fashionable." 



Hence it appears, that it is not much above 200 years since those shoes, 

 above described, were worn ; and consequently it cannot be much longer since 

 the earth has been raised there to the thickness beforementioned. viz. of 10 or 

 12 feet ; and since Bicker Haven grew up to be, as at present, higher land than 

 the country on each side of it. By vi'hich may be conjectured, what a change 

 a century or two more may make in the out-falls of the rivers of Witham, 

 Welland, Nyne and Ouse; and consequently the necessity of taking some other 

 method for preventing the impending mischiefs, which threaten the navigation 

 of the said rivers, and those who have estates and interests in the great level of 

 the fens, and are concerned in the draining of them. 



An Account of a monstrous double Birth in Lorrain. By Mons. Fevry. Com- 

 municated by Mr. Colin Mac Laurin, F. R. S. N"377, p- 346. 



On Dec. 3 J, 1722, M. Fevry, surgeon in ordinary to the Duke of Lorrain, 

 went by his orders to Domp Remy la Pucelle, to see one Sebastians Camus, 

 aged 44, delivered on the 24th of the same month, about 8 o'clock in the 

 evening, of 2 children joined together. There was one head, one neck, one 

 breast, one abdomen, and 2 hands on one side ; and as many parts on the 

 other; the whole being well proportioned and plump, joining together by the 

 belly, which was common to both ; so that one oi the heads was in the place 

 where the other's feet should be, and the other head in its natural place ; they 

 had but 2 legs for them both, which seemed to arise from the transverse 

 apophyses of the vertebrae of the loins on one side ; and from the opposite 

 region of the loins, came out a leg ending with a joint bending forwards, and 

 at the extremity forming a small stump, like a finger, articulated by ginglymus. 

 There was but one fundament for both, by which they voided their faeces; they 

 had but one navel-string, and the parts proper to the female sex also single: 

 they eat and drink with their mouths severally, and while the breast was given 

 to one, the other cried for it : they sleep and are awake, sometimes both at the 

 same time, sometimes separately. Each of these children were baptized : one 

 of them was plumper than the other, which is more puny, and not so fresh- 

 coloured. The head of the one, which was a little larger than that of the 



